The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters ... died or were killed during the American Revolution. And I hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, or others ...

But by the episode's end, the transformation to a system of racial slavery is complete. On the eve of the American Revolution slavery was legal in each of the thirteen colonies -- flourishing not ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

U.S. concerns about the possible "contagion" of the revolution in Saint-Domingue to slaves in North America were outweighed by the political and economic advantages of working with Louverture. North ...

"Looking at a slave badge evokes an emotional reaction," says James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University. "There is the ...

The Old Fort Hall Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution will be hosting a traveling exhibit highlighting the lives ...

Smithsonian writer Andrew Lawler about these lesser-known histories.A transcript is below. To subscribe to “There’s More to That,” and to listen to past episodes about a baseball field resurrected in ...